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Apple unveiled a new Apple TV model on Wednesday, with support for 1080p video and a new user interface, at a special event in San Francisco. The new Apple TV model features a redesigned user interface with iOS-like buttons that appear on the home screen below the thumbnail images. The buttons highlight Apple’s movies, TV […]

The trend toward SSD caching solutions continues with Corsair’s announcement of availability of its Accelerator series of solid-state cache drives. Corsair is advertising the Accelerator series as an easy and affordable way to boost your PC system performance by up to 5 times! The Accelerator series of cache SSDs support Windows 7 operating systems with […]

A COMPUTER store selling Apple brand products has been robbed three times in six months, losing a total of $70,000 of stock in the thefts. In the latest break-in at iLove Computers at Mooloolaba security vision has captured three thieves stealing $10,000 worth of computer gear. In January the store owner estimated $30,000 worth of […]

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While Apple executives have continued to call the Apple TV a hobby, over the past couple years, the company has dedicated a fair amount of resources to it. The Apple TV 2 was a major upgrade, and Apple has added a good number of features to that media player through software updates. The third-generation Apple […]

Google has started rolling out an upgrade of its free photo editing program Picasa that adds Google+ support and additional editing effects. With Picasa 3.9, users can share photos directly with their Google+ circles. Shared photos will appear in the Google+ streams of their circles’ members. After upgrading, when a user chooses to upload photos […]

Shipments of personal computers are expected to grow less than 5 percent this year, according to the latest stats from Gartner. Will Windows 8 make a difference? The PC market is likely to see another sluggish year but is poised for a rebound in 2013. Global PC shipments will hit 368 million in 2012, Gartner […]

The LaCie 2big Thunderbolt Series pre-configured as RAID 0, but you can reconfigure as RAID 1 or JBOD using OS X‘s Disk Utility application. The 2big has a pair of Thunderbolt ports, which makes it easier to incorporate in a Thunderbolt daisy chain. Unfortunately, it has no other ports, such as FireWire or USB, so […]

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news […]

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 8–> What started as a hobby years ago has become a full time business for Janos Balong and his wife, Dawn, who own Log-on, a computer repair business and Internet Café located in Smoke Tree Shopping Center in Palm Springs. Repairs and service calls are about 80 percent of Log-on’s business. The […]